Explosives Recovered from Tractor in Front of School in Bengaluru, FIR Registered

A police officer on patrol found explosives from a tractor near a school at Chikkanayakanahalli under Bellandur Police Station limits on Monday night.

Bengaluru: Gelatin sticks with detonators and some other explosives were found in a tractor near temporary sheds put up for the construction workers in front of a school in Chikkanayakanahalli under Bellandur Police Station here, said the police on Tuesday.

During the patrolling, a police officer spotted them on Monday night and sought details from the workers there, but the police did not get a satisfactory reply from them. The police said, "We suspect that these could have been kept by the labourers to break rocks for constructing buildings." A case has been registered under the Explosives Substances Act and an investigation is underway, said the police.

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